December, 2010

• 9 December

  The endgame for the peace process. By Robert Grenier

  

    Is the realisation finally dawning in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Washington that the peace process is dead? (Photo Warrick Page/Getty) Future historians will no doubt argue over the precise moment when the Arab-Israeli peace process died, when the last glimmer of hope for a two-state solution was irrevocably extinguished. When all is said and done, and the forensics have …

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• 9 December

  A 45-year-old Catholic mother of two has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy.

  

  DOES SHARIA ACCOMMODATES THIS MODERN DAY BLASPHEMY LAWS. THERE WERE AND ARE VERY MANY ILLITERATE, EDUCATED AND HIGHLY EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SAID AND ARE SAYING HIGHLY DEFAMATORY AND INFLAMMATORY THINGS ABOUT ALLAH AND HIS PROPHET. DANTE IN HIS SO CALLED CLASSICAL WORK " INFERNO" CONSIGNED OUR BELOVED PROPHET TO HELL IN AGONIZING WORDS. MODERN DAY TELEVANGELISTS, WRITERS …

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• 9 December

  The Arrest of Julian Assange

  Truth in Chains, By CHRIS FLOYD Well, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the world’s most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish – and lawless – desire to destroy him and his organization. It has been, …

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• 9 December

  The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks By Noam Chomsky

  Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in U.S. diplomatic history. In September the last settlement freeze ended, leading the Palestinians to cease direct talks with Israel. Now the Obama administration, desperate to lure Israel into a new freeze and thus …

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• 9 December

  Don’t Shoot Messenger for Revealing Uncomfortable Truths

  WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of …

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• 9 December

  Euro collapse ‘possible’ amid deepening divisions over bail-out

  

    It is feasible that the euro will not survive the current sovereign debt crisis sweeping Europe, one of the Treasury's leading independent forecasters has said. Greek prime minister George Papandreou and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso speaking to the press on Monday Photo: BLOOMBERG Under questioning from MPs on the Treasury Select Committee, Stephen Nickell, a member of the …

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• 9 December

  Leaks Suggest Iran Is Now Winning in the Middle East By Juan Cole

  Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written. Lebanon’s Sunni prime minister, once a virulent critic, quietly made his pilgrimage to the Iranian capital last …

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